The FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was aimed at finding evidence related to the ongoing probe of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which Democrats want to blame on Mr. Trump ahead of the midterms in November and the 2024 presidential election.
That’s the viewpoint of former intelligence and federal law enforcement officials who say they aren’t buying the claims of anonymous Justice Department sources that the 30 FBI agents who scoured the Trump residence, including Melania Trump’s clothes closet, were merely seeking boxes of classified documents that should have been turned over to the National Archives when Mr. Trump left office under the Presidential Records Act.
